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Lunatic Dawn 3

Lunatic Dawn III is a nonlinear sandbox RPG built around freely chosen delivery, extermination, escort, or smuggling jobs, with actions shifting Order, Chaos, Good, and Evil alignment. This catalogue entry evaluates the recorded original-platform release, including its period-specific controls, presentation, content structure, hardware limits, and intended mode of play.

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7.5 / 10
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About this game

Lunatic Dawn III is a nonlinear sandbox RPG built around freely chosen delivery, extermination, escort, or smuggling jobs, with actions shifting Order, Chaos, Good, and Evil alignment. Open jobs, party growth, relationships, and alignment let players shape an adventurer's career, supporting different routes across new starts. Objectives, interface, and system feedback are obscure, Japanese and complex rules raise the barrier, and combat or travel becomes repetitive. Its freedom rests on rough presentation. This description covers the original ps1 release represented by this catalog entry and does not assume conveniences introduced by later ports. The assessment also treats period hardware limits, documented mechanics, original controls, and release-specific access as explicit evaluation boundaries.

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7.5 / 10PlayStation

Lunatic Dawn III is a nonlinear sandbox RPG built around freely chosen delivery, extermination, escort, or smuggling jobs, with actions shifting Order, Chaos, Good, and Evil alignment.

Open jobs, party growth, relationships, and alignment let players shape an adventurer's career, supporting different routes across new starts. Objectives, interface, and system feedback are obscure, Japanese and complex rules raise the barrier, and combat or travel becomes repetitive. Its freedom rests on rough presentation. Overall, its main strengths are Open jobs, relationships, and alignment shape a career; Different starts and paths support replay freedom. Its material limitations are Obscure objectives, interface, and Japanese systems; Repeated combat and travel with rough presentation. This score covers the original platform release represented by this catalog record and excludes conveniences added by emulators or later ports. The conclusion also accounts for original hardware readability, input, and access conditions. Documented uncertainty remains explicit. The evidence supports this balance.

Strengths

  • Open jobs, relationships, and alignment shape a career
  • Different starts and paths support replay freedom

Weaknesses

  • Obscure objectives, interface, and Japanese systems
  • Repeated combat and travel with rough presentation

Who it is for: Players who value open jobs, relationships, and alignment shape a career and can accept the original release's limits.

Play notes: Before playing, expect obscure objectives, interface, and japanese systems and repeated combat and travel with rough presentation; this assessment covers the recorded original-platform release.

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Different starts and paths support replay freedom; Repeated combat and travel with rough presentation.

Reviewed7.6 / 10Not provided
Dimension

Open jobs, relationships, and alignment shape a career; Obscure objectives, interface, and Japanese systems.

Reviewed8.2 / 10Not provided
Dimension

Different starts and paths support replay freedom; presentation is judged within the original platform conditions, with no bonus for age alone.

Reviewed7.0 / 10Not provided
Dimension

Judged on the original ps1 release's input, readability, saving, and accessory conditions. Obscure objectives, interface, and Japanese systems.

Reviewed5.8 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Developer
Artdink
Publisher
Artdink
Release date
1998
Platforms
PlayStation
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
ReplayableBranching ChoicesTop-down2D GraphicsTurn-based CombatLevel ProgressionExplorationFantasy
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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